Shop Class #7

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Upon entering the Danger Room Shop, The classroom finds it transformed into a metal scrap yard.

Mac sits on the remains of a car seat tossing a medium size pumpkin in the air.

"Now that we got the emitters back in order, it's time to put some of your fabrication skills to work. Today I want you to start work on an apparatus that will fling a pumpkin. It can be a catapult, trebuchet, cannon, giant slingshot... whatever you want."

Mac motions to the scrap yard around him.

"Only catch is? You can use the parts you found from the junkyard behind me. You have full use of the shop tools to build whatever it is you plan to build. You have class today to plan and build. On Thursday we'll test out your new creations."

I'll be grading your project on:
Originality
Use of materials
Accuracy
Distance

"We have open shop this afternoon, and I'll have open shop tomorrow for those who want to use that time to work on their project. If you guys want to do this in groups or on your own, it's up to you."

"Thursday morning? We make a mess."

((I'll be modding the results of the pumpkin fling on Thursday based on how you build your "flinger". The more detail? The better your results.))

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Re: Open Shop

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

Frustrated with the slow progress of his gourd cannon, John works on finishing machining the parts he needed to get the brakes done on the dirt bike, taking each piece over to the bike (which is somewhere in the shop, or near the shop or canoodling with Carter's bike.

That FINALLY done, John starts working on the legs and supports for the countertop of the kitchenette in his room. He would have used wood, but, hey, he'd have to chop a tree or buy lumber for that and here, they have all this stock they're not gonna use anyways.